tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534665086749553287.post8115076695280862684..comments2024-03-29T04:34:05.185-04:00Comments on CURMUDGUCATION: More Rough Days Ahead For Public EdPeter Greenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16511193640285760299noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534665086749553287.post-18380893862739787552021-11-07T08:24:22.515-05:002021-11-07T08:24:22.515-05:00A profound and quite frightening, largely because ...A profound and quite frightening, largely because it is so accurate, piece . Thank you.John Noel Bartletthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07205348601662017326noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534665086749553287.post-58087021027760082562021-11-05T20:37:54.680-04:002021-11-05T20:37:54.680-04:00I would say that the thing that led to this partic...I would say that the thing that led to this particular problem was teenagers who want to sneak into unmonitored areas of the school to have sex. They had reportedly previously also used the boys room, but I haven't heard anyone raising the issue of her pretending to be trans. Peter Greenehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16511193640285760299noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534665086749553287.post-87737817453606158972021-11-05T15:55:42.903-04:002021-11-05T15:55:42.903-04:00Oh yes, it was obvious the boy wasn't trans. ...Oh yes, it was obvious the boy wasn't trans. But the policy of allowing bathroom access to students of the other sex if they self-identify as the same sex is what led to the problem in the first place. I really pity school boards that have to navigate this conundrum.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14241299083307850948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534665086749553287.post-40308452176900455572021-11-05T11:54:55.603-04:002021-11-05T11:54:55.603-04:00But the "guy faking trans" really does w...But the "guy faking trans" really does wear a skirt to school sometimes....even though he seems to like girls. The "trans" thing is coming out of the DEI "curriculum in a can" garbage, too. More sorting based on gender stereotypes and what kids wear or how they feel on any given day...it's become an explosion in school and on TikTok/YouTube/Reddit/Tumblr (there are now lesbians with penises SMH! Look it up). The Koch/Libertarian Party really knows how to glom onto something and turn it into a political issue to win seats for its agenda.edblisahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01792046029260177146noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534665086749553287.post-79773325599790746702021-11-05T11:31:39.193-04:002021-11-05T11:31:39.193-04:00Thanks for these. One note: the supposed trans boy...Thanks for these. One note: the supposed trans boy attack on the girl turns out to be a whole other story. They are a couple who had met in that restroom to have sex in the past. This particular day she apparently changed her mind, and it turned ugly. Raises a lot of questions, but the "guy faking trans so he could attack random girls in the restroom narrative" is apparently incorrect.Peter Greenehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16511193640285760299noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534665086749553287.post-50888020224199341302021-11-05T09:40:27.324-04:002021-11-05T09:40:27.324-04:00I'm in MD and in my district we are having the...I'm in MD and in my district we are having the same issues. I'm a Dem thru and thru, but some of this stuff going on in public school is alarming (and yes, even our black parents are concerned). I pulled my 2nd child out and put him into a progressive private HS because the SEL/DEI added onto the Common Core, data collection, erosion of FERPA and over testing was just too much for our family (child #1 graduated out of the public system). Kids in MS and HS are bundles of hormones as it is, but when the DEI/SEL is added into the mix it really makes the kids crazy.....the kids are sorting each other into boxes and forming battle lines instead of forming Venn Diagrams and getting along. The problem is that any sane parent taking issue with some of this stuff is labeled as a right-wing, nut job, Nazi trying to ban books, stop the teaching of actual History and of denying people their lived existence. The majority of us (and our children) are caught in a culture war between the far left and the far right and there is nothing we can do about it. I was always pro public education but what has been building up over the years is not what I consider to be good educational practice. When everything is standardized and scripted from top down mandates, teachers don't have much autonomy, or time, to really teach how they know best to teach kids. Keep "Beloved", teach real history and stop "using" the LGB kids to show how "progressive" the district is. This has got to end or true public schools will cease to exist.edblisahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01792046029260177146noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534665086749553287.post-2184741121199513692021-11-04T14:56:46.291-04:002021-11-04T14:56:46.291-04:00You make some good points about Democrats not defe...You make some good points about Democrats not defending public education, and caving in to high stakes testing, etc. But what happened in Virginia on Tuesday also looks a whole lot like progressives handing right wingers an oportunity that they didn't have to hand over. Make that 3 opportunties. The Republicans, predictably, used these issues to inflame their most frightened constituents. But the opportunities came from Democrats pandering to some of our smaller and more extreme constituency groups. Namely, McAuliffe actually saying that parents should not influence what gets taught in schools (what!!!??? how tone deaf can you get???). And, the controversy that arose around the sexual assault of a high school girl by a skirt-weating boy in a girls' bathroom. That should have been a wake up call that moving so fast (and so extremely) on trans rights in public schools was a mistake. And, third, school districts that were trying to improve their teaching on race and racism should have been very clear that there would be no encounter-group (or catechism-like) classes where children are led to avow their identities as victims or oppressors (this type of teaching has actually happened in my school district and several others near here). It doesn't take many examples like this to get parents (including, in my area, quite a number of Black parents) completely unhinged. We have had extensive teaching about racism in my district for many years (it has been racially integrated for decades), with never any opposiltion. It's only when the teaching becomes manipulative and doctrinaire that we get this reaction.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534665086749553287.post-78309417955133149012021-11-03T11:57:29.134-04:002021-11-03T11:57:29.134-04:00"I can only hope that some politicians will a..."I can only hope that some politicians will actually see value in stepping up as champions for public education and buck the prevailing political winds."<br /><br />The only problem is that they have no defense. Unless you count bad standards, even worse tests, 20 years of flat/falling test scores, an unprecedented expansion of the null curriculum, opportunity deficits, the rejection of content knowledge over soft 21st century skills, 40 million Chromebooks and the screen time to with them, the debunked and failed methodologies of discovery and constructivist learning, the guide on the side, and the perception of super-woke school culture.<br />NY Teacherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08292448959963091160noreply@blogger.com